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by Ben York There’s an age old saying that the night is darkest just before the dawn. Just 6 games into the 2009 WNBA season, the Minnesota Lynx were flying high under new head coach Jennifer Gillom, rivaling the Phoenix...
by Ben York I’ve written roughly a dozen articles now about the unprecedented 2009 WNBA season and its importance to the success and future of the league. The achievement has to be significant in the truest sense of the word...
Springbok captain John Smit pulls no punches in a new book to be published this weekend. In the book, Captain In The Cauldron, written with The Mercury's Mike Greenaway, Smit relates how Luke Watson had a "cancerous" effect on...
Lost in the recent deluge of smart-phone news -- Apple's iPhone store hitting 100,000 applications, and the launches of the new Droid phone and the BlackBerry Storm, among other things -- have been the efforts of longtime...
Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history.
On its final flyby of Mercury, NASA s Messenger spacecraft has captured images of never before seen regions of the planet. Messenger is providing new scientific findings about the closest planet to th
by Ben York In 39 years as a coach, Lin Dunn has seen just about all there is to see on the basketball court. There was an unmistakable dark cloud hovering over the Fever throughout the year with speculation that ownership...
Many times the reason for the encounter is as innocuous as jaywalking, missing bike head lamps, or failing to signal a turn. But often, as the incidents develop, police determine the suspect is uncooperative and potentially...
by Ben York Covering the Mercury all season long, I was fortunate and lucky enough to get to know the players beyond the superficial. I can honestly say that two-time WNBA champ Cappie Pondexter is everything you think she is...
PHOENIX (AP) -- Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving charge stemming from her July arrest. Taurasi, an all-star guard on the WNBA champions, spent a day in jail after a judge suspended nine...
